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  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, and projection of the transit of Venus. Wood engraving.
  • Astronomy: a 40-foot telescope constructed by William Herschel, in use outdoors. Coloured etching, 18--.
  • Astronomy: an observatory telescope, with an astronomer recording the transit of Venus. Engraving by James Basire.
  • Two winged boys in a lunette with telescope, dividers and a globe; representing Geography (?). Etching.
  • Astronomy: a large aerial (tubeless) telescope, in use by an astronomer. Engraving, 1757, after Ph. de La Hire.
  • Astronomy: the astronomer Sidrophel, using a telescope, misidentifies a kite as a comet. Etching by W. Hogarth, ca. 1721.
  • A man is looking out of the window through a telescope as young children play on a rocking horse. Etching.
  • Astronomy: an ancient scholar (Aristotle?) observing a meteor or comet using a telescope. Engraving by J. Kip, 1694, after G. Freman.
  • Astronomy: an astronomer in his study, looking out of the window with a telescope. Engraving by C. Grignion after S. Wale.
  • A Greenwich Pensioner, on Greenwich Hill, showing trippers the view with a telescope, and offering clay pipes for sale (?). Wood engraving.
  • A group of figures from antiquity are led into a garden by a woman with a telescope and a hand mirror. Etching.
  • Astronomy: a large refracting telescope, at Birr Castle, Ireland. Lithograph by W. Bevan after Miss Henrietta M. Crompton, with figures by H. C. Herries.
  • Scientific instruments and attributes of philosophy: gyroscopes, telescope, pestle and mortar, cosmological manuals, natural history specimens etc.. Lithograph by J-B-J. Jorand, 1835.
  • A Zouave soldier, holding a poison bottle, is carrying on his back Napoleon III, Emperor of the French, who is looking through a telescope. Drawing, 18--.
  • A woman looks at herself in her mirror; a man looks through a telescope; representing the sense of sight. Engraving by A. Bosse after himself, ca. 1650.
  • A young woman is standing on a beach looking out to sea through a telescope which she is resting on the shoulder of a Catholic priest. Wood engraving after P. Thumann.
  • Astronomy: Galileo, after using the telescope on the bell-tower of St Mark's Square, Venice, demonstrates his findings to the Doge, 1609. Engraving by J. P. Le Bas after himself, 1739.
  • The making of a gold shell or a telescope crown. By using models mounted on an articulator an impression can be taken of the biting surface of the opposing teeth. Fig 73.
  • The captain of a ship is looking through a telescope at an approaching hurricane on which is inscribed 'Talks' ; a naval officer is standing beside him. Drawing by A.G. Racey, 191-.
  • King George I representing royalty, a bishop representing episcopacy; and a judge representing law, all as seen through a telescope as inhabitants of the moon. Engraving by J. Moore, 18-- after W. Hogarth, 1724.
  • The Prince of Wales looks from a window of Carlton House at a crowd of people and a woman on a broomstick; George III looks on through a telescope. Coloured etching by "H. Shade" after "Nicholas Lunatic".
  • A lecturer (William Kitchiner?) about to address a lecture on optics with the aid of candles, a telescope and magic lantern to a seated audience, he is interrupted by a Kentish hop merchant. Coloured etching, 1809, after G.M. Woodward.
  • Monaural stethoscope, telescopic.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • A woman having her extremely high wig (which towers over her head in an oval form and is flanked by parallel horizontal curls) dressed with curling tongs by a French hair-dresser on a step-ladder; the woman's husband looks on through a small telescope. Engraving, c. 1771.
  • Above left, a man in Western dress observes a Japanese worker; below left, a figure on a balcony views Sugita bay through a telescope; right, a bird perched on a plum blossom branch, with Sugita bay in the background. Colour woodcut by Kyōsai, with design on right by Mōsai (Yoshitora), ca. 1870.
  • A woman with an open burgundy coloured shirt revealing her breasts stares wide-eyed at a diver holding onto a tray on which sit condoms and a clockwatch; a personified condom flies into the air off a skateboard while a telescope bearing an eye sticks out of the woman's top pocket; a safe sex and AIDS prevention advertisement by the Landsforeningen Ungdomsringen. Colour lithograph by Robert Lindvig, ca. 1995.
  • Optics: a telescopic microscope, and hand-lenses. Aquatint, 1787 [by R. Laurie after Milne ?].
  • Astronomy: telescopic and photographic equipment, set up to record the shadow of the moon. Wood engraving.
  • Astronomy: telescopic and photographic equipment, with a device for projecting the shadow of the moon. Wood engraving, 1875.